Is it hazardous? The question comes up – or should – in many circumstances:

• Product reformulation.
• Change in packaging for storage, transport or sale.
• A waste of complex or unknown origins.

The question might be asked to satisfy internal health and safety concerns. Compliance with complex transportation, environmental, health and safety issues at the state, national or international level might be the driver. So could the need to reduce cost while maintaining safe storage, transportation and packaging.

The risk to life and limb from even apparently benign or inert materials and articles is significant. Ignorance of the hazards or the regulations governing them is no defense against civil litigation or regulatory sanctions. Stresau Laboratory helps you manage these risks by

• Defining the specific situations in which your material may undergo a violent reaction.
• Measuring the degree and extent of danger the reaction poses.
• Providing regulatory compliant solutions for the threat.

Stresau Laboratory works with manufacturers, package designers and other testing laboratories to answer these questions with a responsible, cost-effective protocol. It starts with what the customer knows about the material, article or waste. That information is validated and, if need be, additional testing completes the picture of the hazard and the proper management of that hazard. This management includes proper packaging, labels, storage, transport and handling.

Stresau Laboratory answers the questions on material hazard for explosives, flammables, oxidizers and corrosives. Stresau Laboratory often provides sub-contract support to packaging and materials testing organizations because, like our end-user customers, they need Stresau's expertise in the analysis of the particular hazards of explosive, reactive, pyrophoric or flammable materials. Hazardous waste clean-up contractors have used Stresau Laboratory HMT on-site to characterize the reactive hazards real-time as needed. Analytical laboratories call on Stresau to assess reactive hazards of samples before exposing laboratory personnel and delicate analytical equipment to reactive hazards. Stresau Laboratory does not perform testing for radioactive (Class 7) or Toxic and Infectious (Class 6) hazards but works with laboratories that do to provide a complete hazard characterization of a substance when needed.
Is it hazardous? Yes! If you don’t know the answer.